Press for embossing and figuring velvet



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JOHN NAGELE, 0E AnTooNA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PRESS FOR EMBOSSING AND FIGURING VELVET, 8w. l

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN NAGELE, of Altoona, in Blair county, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Steam-Press for Figuring Velvets, Silk, Cotton, or other Fabrics, and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawing, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1, is a longitudinal section, Fig. 2 an end elevation.

Similar letters of reference refer to corresponding parts in these figures.

The nature of my invention consists in ing velvet-s, silks, cotton, and other fabrics.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the annexed drawing A, B, B and C represent the press rollers.

C represents the figured roller, (4 Z) wheels for driving rollers, 72 p driving pulleys, E fly'wheel, r, 1 wheels for chain ZL,H H double lever for tightening chain it.

W represents the weight for tightening the chain h.

L represents the lever provided with the sliding weight It for the purpose of regulating the pressure on rollers.

X represents the wire rope to adjust the slide 3 G g are shafts for pulleys 0 0 which receive the wire rope.

a is a wheel for turning shafts G g.

N is a movable guide for rollers B, B.

P are links for coupling the lever L.

Z, Z are links for coupling to foot lever F.

S S represent steam pipes for heating rollers A B B.

q is the shaft for the fly wheel and pinion a.

m is a ferrule to keep links Z Z in place.

T represents the table for the material to be figured.

The rollers A, B, B, are hollow and are supplied with steam through the pipes s s. The figured roller C is placed in such a replaced by one of a difierent diameter in order to vary the patterns at pleasure. The movable guide N which carries the two rollers B B can be raised or lowered so as to admit the containing of a figured roller of any desired diameter.

21,976, dated November 2, 1858.

This machine is operated in the following manner. As motion is given to the roller A by the wheels 64 and Z) the chain it communicates this motion to the rollers B B and the pulley on lever H, H keeps the chain tight (whatever may be the diameter of the figured roller C) by means of the weight V attached to the said lever H H. The lever L is provided with a weight R which slides on the lever L by means of the slide 1 which is moved by the wire rope X by means of the wheel a and shafts G 9. By these means any required pressure can be applied without necessitating the lifting or the changing of a series of weights. As the wheel a is turned to the right or to the left the weight R moves to, or recedes from the end of the lever thus causing an increase or decrease of pressure on the rollers. Velvets, silk, cotton or other material which is to be figured is passed between the figured roller and the other rollers, and the design contained on the former will be transferred, formed or pressed on the material. If the operator desires to stop the material from passing through the rollers or to relieve it from the pressure, or to change the roller, all that is required is to press the foot lever f downward.

The principal advantage of this press consists in its being adapted to the use of steam for heating the rollers. Hitherto the rollers have been heated with pieces of hot iron, which are very objectionable from the fact that a uniform temperature can not be obtained in this manner, whereas the arrangement of my press admits of a uniform temperature by means of a constant supply of steam.

Vhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The application of steam to presses for figuring silks, velvets and similar materials substantially as described.

2. The combination of rollers A, B, B, C, with the wheels 1, r, and chain it.

3. The double lever H H in combination with the chain h and weight WV.

4. The movable guide N in combination with the rollers, all in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described.

JOHN NAGELE.

lVitnesses:

J ACOB Goon, B10111). GILL. 

